Jean de la Fontaine — Oeuvres CompleãâoeãâTes: Ouevres Diverses Tome II
Paris, Ãditions Gallimard, 1958. First edition. Leather. An uncommon pristine copy of the first edition. A volume comprising a selection of works by popular author Jean de la Fontaine. The first edition of this work, second volume to the Complete Works: Different Works. With a miscellaneous of writings by the popular author Jean de la Fontaine, in the original French language. Comprising various poems, Le Songe de Vaux, Les Amours de Psyché et de Cupidon, a number of plays, and other works. Jean de la Fontaine was one of the most popular poets of the seventeenth century. This volume comprising a miscellaneous of his writings. In the original, unclipped dustwrapper, issued without a spine to show the beautiful gilt to spine of volume.Part of the Bibliothéque de la Pléiade, an editorial collection created in 1913. All the volumes in the series are bound in leather, colour coded according to the period, with gilt to spine and printed on bible paper. In the original publisher's full morocco binding, with titles stamped in gilt to spine. Externally, lovely. Dustwrapper without spine as issued, showing the gilt to spine. Unclipped. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Fine . Ill.: None. Fine/Fine.
